Gaffe Ballon d’Or on Paolo Rossi: the organizers apologize

The Golden Ball 2021 continues to be discussed. The last case is the gaffe in which the organizers ran into ‘forgetting’ Paolo Rossi and which made even more noise. The blue champion won the award in 1982 and died a year ago: at the gala evening he was not mentioned among the great winners of the trophy, unlike Maradona and Muller.

FORGETFULNESS?

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The impression is that France Football has simply forgotten the blue, Golden Ball in front of Alain Giresse and Zbigniew Boniek in 1982, the year of triumph at the World Cup in Spain, won as top scorer. Contacted, the head of the monthly, as well as the award, Pascal Ferré cuts short: “I do not want to enter into this type of controversy because everything I said would be misinterpreted. You cannot read every aspect of the ceremony, which is festive, in a polemical key . I prefer not to answer and if there is ever need, I will speak directly with the Rossi family. ” And yesterday evening the organizers apologized to Federica Cappelletti, Rossi’s wife, promising to remedy in January with another ceremony. The lady will decide whether or not to accept this repair.